A 1990s BritCom starring RealLife best friends Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke as sisters Tracey and Sharon with Lesley Joseph as their friend and neighbour, the flamboyant man-eater Dorien Green.

Tracey is HappilyMarried to successful builder Darryl Stubbs and has a big house, plenty of money and a son at boarding school. Sharon is unhappily married to the lazy Chris Theodopalopadous and has a cheap council flat and a job in a supermarket. However, Darryl's business isn't as successful as he makes out and he and Chris are arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Tracey feels unable to cope on her own so Sharon, partly to comfort her and partly to get away from her own miserable life, moves in with her.

A new series started on Creator/{{ITV}} (the original was on Creator/TheBBC) in 2014, 16 years after the "final" episode. This starts off with Sharon back in her council flat, but [[StatusQuoIsGod events conspire]] to bring her back to Chigwell.----!!This show contains examples of:* AwfulWeddedLife: Sharon and Chris, in contrast to Tracey and Darryl. Tracey describes Sharon as, "The most mistreated wife since Anne Boleyn." Presumably Dorien and Marcus' marriage isn't very happy either but we don't see enough of Marcus to be sure.* BigFancyHouse: Tracey and Dorien both have one, at least by UK standards, until the penultimate series when financial circumstances force them all to downsize.* BlandNameProduct: In the new series, Dorien has found fame as the author of ''Sixty Shades of Green''.** Dorien and Sharon work in "World of Quid" a fictionalised version of Poundland. For extra points, the shop is clearly a former Woolworths with some of the letters still used in the sign - Poundland is the largest owner of former Woolies stores.* ButICantBePregnant: Sharon in a early storyline. After Chris' arrest, she started seeing another man and was shocked when he managed to knock her up, believing herself to be infertile. Turned out it was Chris who was infertile.* [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Special]]: Several. ** The final BBC episode, though not officially one of these, originally aired on Christmas Eve and even ends with an AwayInAManger moment.* DeadpanSnarker: Sharon, often at Dorien's expense.* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Chris at his trial. When the judge has trouble pronouncing his surname, Chris calls him a"stupid old fart", the judge holds him in contempt of court and Chris responds, "Big deal, I'm down for a ten year stretch anyway, aren't I?" resulting in his ''and Darryl's'' sentences being increased to twelve years.* DisappearedDad: Sharon and Tracey's father, who went missing when they were little, leaving them to be brought up by various other relatives after their mother died. In one episode they discovered his name was George Hamilton and, at Sharon's insistence, wasted a trip tracking down the film star George Hamilton (AsHimself) and never found their real father.* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first series had a very odd title sequence, showing Sharon and Tracey standing together in a darkened room in a way that made them look more like lovers than sisters, while the theme song was performed by a ''man'', in a very downbeat manner. Starting with the second series, this was changed to the more familiar sequence showing pictures of them growing up together, and in the third series the theme song was now sung by the actresses in a slightly more up-tempo fashion.* EverybodySmokes: And all over the expensive furniture. Darryl smokes cigars while everyone else sticks to cigarettes.* GoldDigger: Dorien, regarding Marcus. Money is the only thing she gets out of the marriage.* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: Dorien, although obviously middle-aged, always makes an effort to look good and it pays off. She was never short of willing young men.* HappilyMarried: Tracey and Darryl, in contrast to Sharon and Chris.* HouseWife: Tracey and Dorien, the perk of having rich husbands. Although Tracey later starts working.* IntergenerationalFriendship: Between the sisters and Dorien. Dorien won't admit to it though and gets highly insulted whenever someone mistakes her for the girls' mother.* MrsRobinson: Dorien, most of her lovers are somewhat younger than her, not that any of them ever complain.* OverlyLongName: Theodopalopadous is at least two syllables longer than a surname really ought to be. Not suprisingly, Sharon hates it.* {{Pun}}: Often dropped by Sharon. For example, whilst playing Monopoly, she referred to "Dorien's Boobs, also known as The Community Chest."* ReallyGetsAround: Dorien, very much so. * TitleDrop: When the three women were attempting to start up a cleaning business. Sharon suggested "Birds of a Feather" as a name for it.----